JACK RIDL: A READING, RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNINGCome hear award-winning poet and professor emeritus at Hope College Jack Ridl read from his new poetry collection Practicing to Walk like a Heron. About this collection, Naomi Shihab Nye has written, “Jack Ridl is a superstar in the realm of compassionate, transporting, life-changing poetry.” And Li-Young Lee wrote, “I truly hope we can evolve toward the quality of being these poems reveal.” Ridl’s previous poetry collections includeLosing Season, Broken Symmetry and Against Elegies. This is a gala event not to miss.